7:44 AM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Former Australia wicketkeeper Lorna Beal (née Larter), who played seven Test matches between 1948 and 1951, has died aged 96. She made her debut against New Zealand in Wellington in what was the first women’s Test between the two countries with the remaining six matches all coming against England. Her final Test was at The Oval in 1951 in a match England won to level…
12:32 AM IST Yorkshire 264 and 259 for 7 (Bairstow 75, Lyth 50) lead Nottinghamshire 355 lead by 168 runs For cricketers with an abundance of talent batting is a deceptively straightforward business and Jonny Bairstow plays at his best when he remembers every word of that. Rather than grousing about whether he will keep wicket, where in the top six he will bat or what other people are saying…
12:22 AM IST ECB Reporters Network Glamorgan 181 for 2 (Carlson 76*, Root 53*) trail Worcestershire 455 for 8 (Libby 184, D’Oliveira 174) by 274 runs Kiran Carlson and Billy Root led a powerful Glamorgan fightback after centurions Jake Libby and Brett D’Oliveira had earlier rewritten the record books for Worcestershire in the Bob Willis Trophy encounter at Blackfinch New Road. Libby and D’Oliveira set a new partnership record for…
11:08 PM IST ECB Reporters Network Essex 262 and 261 (Finch 4-38, Virdi 4-85) lead Surrey 187 (Jacks 70, Harmer 6-67, Porter 4-53) and 27 for 1 by 310 runs Essex’s batsmen failed to convert starts into half-centuries but their combined efforts set Surrey 337 to win their Bob Willis Trophy contest. Sir Alastair Cook, Tom Westley, Varun Chopra, Paul Walter and Adam Wheater all scored between 33 and 46…
11:08 PM IST ECB Reporters Network Hampshire 296 (Murtagh 4-61) and 60 for 2 need a further 98 to beat Middlesex 252 and 201 (Gubbins 46, Organ 4-42) Felix Organ stepped into the breach to bowl injury-hit Hampshire into a winning position with a four-wicket haul against Middlesex at Radlett. Organ was called on to send down 13 overs of offbreaks during Middlesex’s second innings after a second freak injury…
11:00 PM IST ECB Reporters Network Derbyshire 408 (Madsen 103, Hosein 66*, Reece 56, du Plooy 55) and 12 for 1 beat Leicestershire 199 (Dearden 70, Melton 4-22 and 220 (Critchley 6-73) by nine wickets Legspinner Matt Critchley picked up career-best figures of 6 for 73 as Derbyshire extended their lead at the top of the North Group by completing a nine-wicket victory over Leicestershire in the Bob Willis Trophy…
10:48 PM IST ECB Reporters Network Gloucestershire 210 (Hannon-Dalby 6-33) and 197 for 6 (van Buuren 72, Higgins 51) lead Warwickshire 247 (Lamb 65) by 160 runs Half-centuries from Graeme van Buuren and Ryan Higgins kept Gloucestershire hopes alive on the third day of the Bob Willis Trophy match against Warwickshire at the Bristol County Ground. The home side looked in deep trouble when slipping to 30 for 3 in…
10:44 PM IST ECB Reporters Network Kent 530 for 1 (Cox 238*, Leaning 220*) lead Sussex 332 and 173 (Stevens 5-50) by an innings and 25 runs Veteran Darren Stevens bagged five wickets to help clinch his side’s three-day, innings-and-25-run win over Sussex after a record-breaking display of Kent batting that featured double hundreds by Jordan Cox and Jack Leaning. In near ideal batting conditions at the Spitfire Ground, St…
10:46 PM IST Nagraj Gollapudi Close News editor, ESPNcricinfo Nagraj Gollapudi is news editor at ESPNcricinfo Shashank Kishore Rajasthan Royals on August 20. Chennai Super Kings and Mumbai Indians on August 21. Kings XI Punjab and Delhi Capitals between August 21 or 22. Those are the travel dates for teams reaching UAE via charter flights for the 2020 edition between September 19 and November 10. Super Kings, who finished runner-up…
9:47 PM IST ECB Reporters Network Lancashire 308 (Bohannon 75, Salisbury 4-57) beat Durham 180 and 110 (Hurt 4-27, Bailey 3-11) by an innings and 18 runs Lancashire recorded a dominant victory over Durham by an innings and 18 runs inside three days in their Bob Willis Trophy match at Emirates Riverside. The Red Rose were in control of the contest after the opening two days and compounded their advantage…